Manmac BLUes or how to typeset a book via TEX
Kees van der Laan · 1993
The manmac macros are enumerated. A user's guide is provided, and the encodings are explained. As enhancements the writing of index reminders to the file index.tex is elaborated upon, and how to incorporate AMS fonts and non-CM fonts is referred to. In the appendixes I provided the source of manmac and my personalized report template. With respect to the latter, I played with the idea of formatting the MAPS specials series in this way. Keywords: Computer-assisted typography, manmac, style/format, customizing, index preparation, plain T E X, fonts, macro writing, education. Introduction This is the first article in a series, where basic, general, and public domain macro collections are discussed. In progress are AMS BLUes, and TUGboat BLUes. Manmac is the collection of macros, used by Don Knuth, to format the T E Xbook. 1 They are discussed as an example format in the T E Xbook, Appendix E, p. 412--425. The encodings comprise some 10 pages. Manmac is a gem. Everybody should k...